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But I will say that I think it's telling that the author starts off talking about things like Vietnam and Watergate (and … "Monicagate" -- OMG) and then immediately begins doing what cons love to do more than anything else in the world --- bitch and moan about how the world is evil because their taxes are too high, or there's too much goverment oversight (which they always seem to forget runs counter to the reason they aren't in power now) infringing upon their ability to treat the planet like a toilet and profit as much as possible from perpetual war.

STARTING POINTLinda Tripp launches "Monicagate" in 1998 after she secretly records Pentagon pal Lewinsky's tales of a sexual affair with President Bill Clinton, then hands the tapes over to independent counsel Kenneth Starr.

It was the majority of the American people who kept "Monicagate" in sensible perspective while archdeacons of capital wisdom such as David Broder worked themselves up to a fine moral lather, and it was the majority of the American people who faced reality and turned against the war in Iraq while the archdeacons frittered and fence-straddled.